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On a day that saw four new dramas nominated for best series, some love (but not nearly enough) for Donald Glover’s comedy “Atlanta” and an astonishingly great nomination for Pamela Adlon, is it wrong to complain about what Emmy voters got wrong?
Of...

The second season of “Baskets” is even better than the first season — welcome news for those loyal fans who took time off from a billion other binge-worthy shows in 2016 to watch Zach Galifianakis play a fortysomething out-of-work clown and Louie...

At the Malibu home of Hollywood talent manager Marc Gurvitz, Kaley Cuoco of “The Big Bang Theory” struck a pose with a child who has epidermolysis bullosa, a rare and debilitating skin disorder.
Cuoco joined several actors and celebrities at the...

Below are the films opening theatrically through April 21. Release dates and other details are subject to change. Sadly, “Attack of the Lederhosen Zombies” (Jan. 13) and “My Entire High School is Sinking Into the Sea” (2017 TBA) fall outside this window....

New series I loved in 2016: 13 shows in 10 items, in no particular order.
"Baskets" (FX) / "Atlanta" (FX)
Zach Galifianakis and Donald Glover find themselves back home and struggling in these personal, downbeat, guardedly hopeful, suddenly...

A wise person once claimed, “Comparison is the thief of joy” — sage words to keep in mind when worldly, gorgeous, impossibly perfect new neighbors move into the cul-de-sac, as they do in the action-comedy “Keeping Up with the Joneses.” But these Joneses...

Tom Cruise could seize the top spot at the box office this week when his “Jack Reacher” sequel hits U.S. theaters. But to do so, he’ll have to beat a sinister board game and a cross-dressing Tyler Perry.
“Jack Reacher: Never Go Back” will face off...

Some Hollywood directors would be sent into an emotional tailspin if their movie was yanked from the schedule and put on the shelf just weeks away from its release. Agents would be screamed at. Therapists would be called. But Jared Hess is not built...

There’s a certain subset of the population that may find Zach Galifianakis in a ridiculous hairdo the height of comedy. If you are in that segment, welcome, join us. You’ll find much merriment in the lightweight and very silly comedy “Masterminds,”...

Zach Galifianakis has hosted plenty of big names on his Internet mock talk show “Between Two Ferns,” including Brad Pitt, Justin Bieber and even President Obama. But the episode he released Thursday featuring Democratic presidential candidate Hillary...

In a time-honored American political tradition, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton paid a visit to “Between Two Ferns,” the mock talk show hosted by Zach Galifianakis.
In the clip, released Thursday by Funny or Die but recorded Sept. 9,...

Remember when TV shows premiered in the fall? That new-series smell now wafts over the entire year. As a viewer, it’s hard to keep up if you’re not dedicating your life to watching television.
Fortunately, or disturbingly, many people do dedicate their...

On "Baskets," the first-year comedy he created with Louis C.K. and Jonathan Krisel, Zach Galifianakis plays twin brothers — Chip, a heartbroken, angry clown who finds himself working a rodeo in Bakersfield, and his condescending, loudmouth nemesis Dale....

Marie Elizabeth Haist was born in Los Angeles in 1925. Her life started out pretty conventionally. But when she divorced in her fifties, the suburban housewife lost her home, began living in her van and wound up on the streets.
She slept outside...

Just to be clear, Mimi was famous long before anyone made a movie about her.
People called her the Queen of Montana Avenue — but not because she was rich.
Now this 90-year-old who for nearly two decades slept in a strip-mall laundromat spends her days...

Published in Los Angeles Times on May 13, 2016 — Print headline: "Laundromat legend is at home on red carpets too"

Louie Anderson, the comic and author, is right now delivering one of the year’s great performances on “Baskets,” a melancholy FX comedy about a bitter man in search of beauty. That is Chip Baskets, played by series co-creator Zach Galifianakis, whose...

Before he became the star of the billion-dollar "Hangover" franchise, Zach Galifianakis was the bearded patron saint of the alt-comedy world. Now the North Carolina native, who interviewed President Obama in 2014 on his mock talk show "Between Two Ferns,"...

Published in Los Angeles Times on February 02, 2016 — Print headline: "Clown ... ... with a frown - Zach Galifianakis returns to oddball roots in TV comedy"

There isn’t really time for hellos when Zach Galifianakis has a pressing question.
“If you see a mouse yawn, does that then make you yawn?”
The 46-year-old comedian had just sat down for an interview during a recent round of promotion for his new FX...